Students' Biennale 2021: Kingkar Sarkar: Urban Apparatus: musings of a villager

Curated by Manoj Vyloor

Untitled by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

The artwork is a physical form given to the mind’s wanderings into a distant city, while rooted to one’s native village.

Structure of Kolkata by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

Musings on Kolkata

For Kingkar Sarkar, a student of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, the city of Kolkata holds an intrigue when viewed or thought about from his distant village. 

Life by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

 He attempts to deconstruct what defines a city, and then recreates them with paper. 

Structure of City by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

He constructs motorized machines with card papers..

Subway by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

..that move or play but to no purpose.

Tube well of my village by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

His work parodies the urban constructions and high rises..

Structure of Apartment by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

..or a lottery machine, a vending machine or a game console.

Inside of Kolkata by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

The models are surreal, yet naïve..

Structure of Kolkata by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

..and in complete white, making them look like ghost cities. 

Unsupported situation by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

Being from the rural part of the country,

Untitled by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

Kingkar longs for an urban other,

Structure of carrot by Kingkar SarkarKochi-Muziris Biennale

something he achieves through his outlandish constructs. 

The Students’ Biennale seeks to complement and strengthen the fine arts education system in India and is the largest educational initiative of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. The fourth edition was led by a team of five artists and art educators – Adip Dutta, Archana Hande, Manoj Vyloor, Suresh K Nair and Vasudha Thozhur, and featured 314 student artists from over 62 education institutions across India to produce approximately 45 projects.

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